Oskar Kroeger

Oskar Kroeger was a citizen of the Federal State of Austria at the time of the Anschluss in 1938. Kroeger was a supporter of the Fatherland Front due to his love for Austria and his opposition to German nationalism, and he opposed Nazi Germany's annexation of his homeland. At the 1938 Salzburg Festival, he joined Captain Georg von Trapp and the audience in singing the folk song "Edelweiss" out of pride for their former country and in defiance of the Nazi Party members in attendance, who were disappointed in the captain's emotional display of Austrian nationalism.